I made 4,6 and 8 braid cables but the best one is 8 wires braiding.
There are only 7 strands so its very stiff. Good for interconnects but bit hard for iems or headphones unless you like alo style (stiff) cables Edited by Canadian411 - 6/1/14 at 5:44pm

Sorry if this has been answered before but is there a recommended brand or type of wire to use if I want to make my own headphone or line-in connector. I mainly want to avoid the annoying enamel coated ones where after minimal flexing the coating rubs off and you get a short.

For a cheap cable, would it work if I used some RJ45 cable and soldered 3 of the wires, or will they not handle the flexing?

So far I am not looking for anything high end, just trying to fix some cheap headphones that I use on the go.

Sorry if this has been answered before but is there a recommended brand or type of wire to use if I want to make my own headphone or line-in connector. I mainly want to avoid the annoying enamel coated ones where after minimal flexing the coating rubs off and you get a short.

For a cheap cable, would it work if I used some RJ45 cable and soldered 3 of the wires, or will they not handle the flexing?

So far I am not looking for anything high end, just trying to fix some cheap headphones that I use on the go.

Mogamis are cheap 5 ft for less than $5 and you have 4 wires in teflon.

yeah, either of those cables work fine for a simple project. i'm assuming you want the individual wires and don't need the sheathing around it right? if you want to use the whole cable for a re-cabling job for your headphones, you will need at least three internal wires (for single entry headphones) and four wires for dual entry headphones.